Review
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"""The American Running and Fitness Association has been recommending Sport Stretch since it first came out. This new edition is even better. Alter provides a smorgasbord of stretches, so it's easy to find one that works for you. No matter what your sport is, Alter can help your flexibility, and possibly your performance."""
Susan Kalish
Former Executive Director
American Running and Fitness Association
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"""The American Running and Fitness Association has been recommending Sport Stretch since it first came out. This new edition is even better. Alter provides a smorgasbord of stretches, so it's easy to find one that works for you. No matter what your sport is, Alter can help your flexibility, and possibly your performance."""
Susan Kalish
Former Executive Director
American Running and Fitness Association
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Product Description
Contains background information on flexibility, including basic principles of stretching and body responses during stretching. Readers will discover what causes muscle soreness, how increased flexibility leads to better performance and reduces injury, and how they can limber up and play their best.
About the Author
A former gymnast, coach, and nationally certified men’s gymnastics judge, Michael J. Alter is an expert on the subject of stretching. He is the author of Science of Flexibility, Science of Stretching, and the first edition of Sport Stretch.
Alter earned his MS in health education from Florida International University in 1976. He taught high school physical education and coached gymnastics for several years prior to his current position in Miami as a high school teacher.
Alter has been a guest lecturer at annual meetings across the country, including the 1994 Chiropractic Sports Science Symposium and the 1992 Scientific Meeting of the North American Society of Pediatric Exercise Medicine.
